If it happens to be a stormy night
They will practise a caper or two in the hall.
If it happens the sun is shining bright
You would say the had nothing to do at all:
They are resting and saving themselves to be right
For the __________________.

And when you heard a dining-room smash
Or up from the pantry there came a loud crash
Or down from the library came a loud ping
From a vase which was commonly said to be Ming--
Then the family would say: 'Now which was which cat?
It was ___________________
And there's nothing at all to be done about that!

She thinks that the cockroaches just need employment
To prevent them from idle and wanton destroyment.
So she's formed, from that lot of disorderly louts,
A troop of well-disciplined helpful boy-scouts . . .